Sunday, April 14, 2013

It's just common sense.
If you buy a gun, Society has an interest in knowing that you own that gun and you should be required to carry liability insurance on any damage caused by that gun.
If you walk into a gun store to buy ammunition, you should be required to show proof of ownership of a firearm that requires that ammunition and show proof of liability insurance for said firearm.
There should also be a reasonable round-per-day limit on ammunition purchases.
Any purchases of semi-automatic weapons or clips exceeding 10 rounds should be restricted to law enforcement or military personnel.
Rather than making everyone's medical and mental health records available to law enforcement or gun dealers, everyone's gun and ammunition purchases should be available to medical professionals.
If a possibly psychotic patient presents himself with a desire to do harm, the clinician should be able to query a federal database and see "this person doesn't seem to own any weaponry that presents a real and present danger to anyone", or "this person purchased 12 semi-automatic weapons and 5000 rounds of ammunition 6 months after filing for unemployment, 4 months after declaring bankruptcy and 2 months after his wife filed divorce papers in Lafayette County".
A doctor should be able to file a "reasonable cause" block to further gun and ammo purchases and require that person's home to be searched and have any dangerous weapons legally removed and held in safe keeping until the individual is deemed responsible.
This makes sense.

No one has ever made any connection to registration preventing any illegal shooting. What is known is that its the prelude to confiscation. Just try and get mine. In fact, I bet your hiding under your bed already because the unicorn is loose in your house and your scared. This is pure stupid.

The problem overall is not and never has been lawful gun owners. As tragic as the rare school shooting is, they are a drop in the bucket when compared to the every day never ending killings in the urban core. I've known more criminals than you can count. Having been one myself I can tell you with certainty, criminals do not give a fuck what kind of new laws you pass. Look at Chicago. The people killing one another are not buying guns legally. Chicago has gun laws out the wazoo. It is also the most violent shit pile in the country. In a nutshell, this latest gun control bid has nothing to do with keeping people safe. It's about making one side look like hillbillies clingin to Gawd n Guns. You know that. This is about politics and winning elections.

It's a little funny to me (funny strange) that the same people who insist that a person should not be able to vote without showing a photo ID are the most resistant to any sort of registration or regulation of firearms

You know me. You've met me. Yet you think it would help if I would turn in my Springfield 9 mm with a 19 capacity magazine? And then I should get a title and insurance for my shotgun and when I give it to my son-in-law, I should get a change in title within 30 days, etc. etc..

Really? Ya think that's going to help society? Are you really that afraid of me? lol

Anonymous - "No one has ever made any connection to registration preventing any illegal shooting."

That's because no one has ever tried it. Let's give it a shot (see what I did there?) and see what happens.

"Just try and get mine."

Oh, go pound sand up your ass "tough guy". I don't want your fucking gun, but if the Feds decide they want your gun, I don't think you have the balls or the arms to defend yourself against Predator drones with Hellfire missiles, M1A Abrams Main Battle Tanks or Seal Team 6.

Save the "tough talk" for your bar buddies. Nobody here is impressed with your efforts to overcompensate for having a tiny little dick.

Mark - "The problem overall is not and never has been lawful gun owners."

That's not entirely true. The Sandy Hook shooter obtained his arsenal through legal means that could have been mitigated. He wasn't out in some dark alley buying a single handgun with the serial number removed so he could hold up a liquor store.

Same is true with that "Joker" fuck who shot up the movie theater. He bought all of that stuff legally.

If we tightened the laws around buying, owning and possessing, these wackos couldn't have amassed such a huge arsenal so easily.

"As tragic as the rare school shooting is, they are a drop in the bucket when compared to the every day never ending killings in the urban core."

That's true. I'll give you that. But here's the thing. Nobody gives a flying fuck at a rolling donut about "the every day never ending killings in the urban core."

Those are criminals killing criminals over criminal activity and it is confined (for the most part) to the handful of zip codes where that shit goes down. They have their own channels for getting illegal guns an no legislation is going to impact them. I agree. But they are a sort of "self contained" problem that very rarely bleeds over into the rest of society.

L A - I know you don't agree with what I just said to Mark because you support Alonzo (who I think serves himself above all others) but I do agree with what you just said.

Jools - No, I'm not afraid of you! I mean, I would be if I came down there and tried to do you wrong...I'd be very afraid! LOL!

I'm just saying that tracking the provenance of gun ownership from the point of manufacture shouldn't be that big of a deal.

We do it with cars, we should be able to do it with guns.

If a gun is found at a crime scene, it shouldn't take the police more than 10 seconds to locate the most recent lawful owner of that gun and ask that person some questions.

"Do you still own it?" No? "Did you sell it to someone?" No? "Was it stolen?" Yes? "Did you file a police report within 30 days as required by (my new) law?" No? Why not?"

There is nothing unreasonable or burdensome about having a trail of ownership for deadly weapons.

Come on xo criminal elements are not contained to a certain area. Willie sutton said he robbed banks because that's where the money is. I could rattle off a few dozen robberies turned murder, wrote about most of them. For every gangsta on gangsta killing there is a gangsta killing some grandma on her front porch or some baby asleep too close to a window. There were over 70,000 attempts by felons to purchase a pistol or rifle through the regular background check system . The feds prosecuted less than 40. The problem isn't not enough law, the problem is that laws in place agent prosecuted. Trust me, I don't allow guns anywhere near me. I don't want to do 120 months. I do however respect the rights of those who legally and responsibly own guns. I also am sympathetic to their mistrust of a govt who talks out of both sides of their neck. Many of the political reps who are in favor of more gun control want to go farther than registration. People don't trust them and I don't blame em a bit. This is one of those debates where a middle ground doesn't exist.